Crookery
Crookery noun - The inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery.
Gamesmanship and crookery are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Gamesmanship" instead a noun "Crookery".
Gamesmanship
Gamesmanship noun - The use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end.
Usage example: that author doesn't go in for literary gamesmanship, so the reader is never led astray by the novel's narrator
Crookery and gamesmanship are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crookery" instead a noun "Gamesmanship".
Nearby Word: game
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- deception and crookery
- deception and gamesmanship
- scheme and crookery
- scheme and gamesmanship
- artifice and crookery
- artifice and gamesmanship
- dodge and crookery
- dodge and gamesmanship
- cunning and crookery
- cunning and gamesmanship
- double-dealing and crookery
- double-dealing and gamesmanship
- craft and crookery
- craft and gamesmanship
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